West Bank Hamas Leaders Detained by Israeli Soldiers

By

Joshua Mitnick

Updated June 16, 2014 9:21 p.m. ET

TEL AVIV—Israeli security forces arrested nearly all of the top leaders of Hamas in the West Bank on Monday, widening its crackdown on the Islamist militant group as the manhunt for three kidnapped Israeli teenagers stretched longer than expected.

Since the weekend Israel soldiers detained more than 100 Hamas members, including legislator Abdul Aziz Dweik, the speaker of the Palestinian parliament; Nayef Rajoub, a former Hamas cabinet member; and Sheikh Hassan Youssef, one of the founders of Hamas in the West Bank. The...